Last night was great 07/26/2008. I arrived in Addison at 10:40pm at a local bar (Sherlocks in Addison) crawling with people. I was amazed at many groups of people there were, but I was the only lone wolf. Soon as I walked into the bar the game was on. I entered smiling, chest up, shoulders back with a demeanor that I could bench-press the world. I posses a gift I think most people are not blessed with. The gift of humor while not being embarrassed what other people may think. I will say and do just about anything that seams funny to me. If you laugh great, if you don't it does not matter because I am laughing. A win-win in any relaxed social situation.
I entered the bar with a two goals.
Meet as many sets as I could.
Don't drink too much.
So I walked right up to the bar, ordered a miller light, and acted like I was waiting on some friends to show up. Funny how you can turn complete strangers into the friends you were waiting on. As I was waiting by the bar I noticed two women come up to the bar. I waited until after they had their drinks to approach them. As they walked back to dart area I soon followed with full intent of talking to them. My target was the tall 6-foot brunet with tight jeans and white t-shirt. She had a very pretty face with perfect teeth at least an 8. The two women I was approaching were in the dart area but not playing darts. They were standing close by to their friends observing the dart game and bar clients. 3 seconds later I walked right up and asked, "Is this the dart line?" They both giggled and said "No, but we are on a dart team called the flaming darts" later I found out that 80% of the women playing darts were lesbians. So I think it was safe to say it was an inside joke. I moved right into my own canned material I had been working on for the last 2 weeks. I asked, "I need an opinion about a friend that just got dumped by her boyfriend of 4 years". They both were instantly fixated on everything I was about to say. I said, "They lived in this awesome apartment overlooking the beautiful Dallas skyline. The sunsets at the apartment are simply breath taking. With the oranges, blues, and red over tones this is a view to fight for." I was painting a picture for them of an apartment I had never been in or existed, but had conjured out of thin air. I followed up this statement with "the apartment is only 15 minutes away from her work and most of the furniture was hers." "Most of the electronic equipment was his like a big TV, stereo, and toaster oven". Talking between the two was going non-stop at this point. Everything from "she should get the apartment" to "she should kick him out for dumping her" I interrupted them to add a little more. I stated, "Before they moved in together she made him burn all his old pictures, letters, and trinkets from old girlfriends". They talked a lot about this too. They started bringing their other friends over to join in this conversation. At this point I was the only guy in this section of the bar surrounded by hot lipstick lesbians hanging on to every word I said. I felt and looked like the man. Then I moved into the next canned material. I asked, "How long have you known each other?" they replied "A very long time" next I moved into the best friends test. I had hooked my first set. I kept telling them I was meeting some friends and had to go soon. I did some palm reading next. "Give me your hand" I said to the target. She placed her hand in mine. I rubbed my finger down her palm and said "hmmmm interesting" then threw her hand away. "What is it?" she exclaimed. I said, "Give me your hand again" she placed her hand in mine and I preformed the test again. "See this break in this line right here?" she replied, "Yes". "It means you are at a turning point in your life with big decisions coming your way". She gasped "NO WAY!". I said, "Yes its true it says so right here on your palm next to your death line". She giggled more. Now I wanted to play a little cat and mouse. I said, "I am going to call my friends to see where they are, I will see you guys around". I walked around to the music side of the bar in a completely different room as I called some people I thought might be up. Next I walked up to a few more sets on this side of the bar. Feeding the same canned material, the same hand gestures, the same time constraints, and same body language. I was golden over here as well. I was even introducing sets to each other as my friends as if I knew them forever. It was really snowballing almost out of control the way things were going. Then I stopped and noticed something all to familiar, guys doing the same things I used to do. Leaning in to a woman's ear, holding their beer up as a shield, asking the standard "what do you do?" questions. Women would just walk away from them in droves to the bathroom. I laughed a little inside at these poor socially inept guys. These same guys would be at the bar buying drinks for a group of girls while I would be reading palms and pulling hair of the women they were tiring to impress. Soon I decided to come back to the other side of the bar, the side I started at. While ordering another drink I glanced down at my phone. The 6-foot tall beauty walked up to me and asked me to rejoin her group until my friends had arrived. I was in now for real with this 6-foot tall Amazon beauty. She asked, "So what do you do?" I gave her a bit that I was a hand model or something. She laughed and said, "No really what do you do" I told her a long story of how my Dad was saved in the marines because he knew how to work on computers. Again she was fixated on every word I uttered. I told her "Your too nice for me, lets find you a new boyfriend" Then I pushed her away. She pushed me back. Switches were starting to go off like crazy. Her friends were taking pictures so I used this an opportunity to grab the camera and play photographer. Soon everyone was saying "goodbye" and "I'll see you later". I shook hands with everyone, said my goodbyes, while saving the 6-foot tall beauty for last. I gave her a long hand shake and hug then headed back to the bar for one more drink. Then I saw two tall women standing in line at the bar ready to order a drink. I was going to wait for them to order before I approached but I they could not get the bartenders attention. "Is this the line for drinks?" I asked. "Yeah it is kinda" they replied. "Cool well I will just fight you two and take your spot" They both put up their hands and acted like clumsy boxers. Next I worked my canned material, stories, and body language with identical responses. This was too good I though to myself. I was even getting kinoed by this set 45 seconds after meeting them. They asked, "Do you workout?" then squeezing my arms and chest. "Hay! Hands off the merchandise!" they laughed and grouped me more. "Hay can I talk to you for a minute?" came from the dart area. It was the same 6-foot women target I was talking with all night. "Yeah just a minute then you can get back to your friends" she said. How funny she thought the new set I was talking to were the friends I had been waiting on all night. "I'll be right back" I said as I walked over to her. "What's your phone number?" she asked. I was a little taken back by her being so forward so I gave her a fake number. Then I said, "Kiss goodbye?" and pointed at my cheek. She looked nervous then leaned in to peck me on the cheek. I responded and gave her a peck as well. I said, "Give me a call" knowing full well we will never meet up again. She said, "I will" and off she went.
So in conclusion I talked to about 8 sets, introduced sets to one another, rubbed hands, pulled hair, got surrounded by lipstick lesbians, kiss closed, and got number closed on. Not a bad night for my first time out alone as a future pua.